A Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon joined other doctors on Capitol Hill in recounting harrowing stories of the effects of gun violence. It's part of an effort to compel congressional action and take issue with a recent National Rifle Association assertion that doctors should "stay in their lane."

Doctors have significant standing in the gun debate. Here in Maryland, Shock Trauma doctors have created a Violence Intervention Program to reduce the “revolving door phenomenon” of gunshot victims. Rep. Ruppersberger is drafting legislation to take this program nationwide.

Joseph Davies Tydings, the last Harford County resident to serve in the United States Senate, a confidante of John and Robert Kennedy and a lifelong independent voice for progressive Democrats, died Monday from cancer in Washington, D.C. He was 90.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous met Monday for the only scheduled debate in the 2018 governor’s race. This transcript was generated through a mix of automated software and human editing.

March for Our Lives student leaders were at Baltimore's NAACP headquarters Monday afternoon to encourage online voter registration and digital organizing on the 53rd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

With voters now casting their ballots, the intensity has ratcheted up in the Democratic primary for Baltimore County executive, with attack ads airing on the radio and negative fliers landing in voters’ mailboxes.

Election-year politics burst out at the Baltimore County Council meeting Tuesday as two Democratic candidates seeking to be the next county executive offered support for a gun control bill sponsored by their common rival: Councilwoman Vicki Almond.

Voters of Carroll County deserve better than unattributed ad hominem attacks and appeals to people’s underlying fears and prejudices. Candidates can parry this political porn by using town hall meetings, forums and this newspaper to tell us more about what they stand for and what they are aga

If you need some relief from the daily exercise in obscene chaos inflicted on the world by Donald Trump , I have a book for you to read. “My Life in Progressive Politics” is the autobiography of Joseph D. Tydings, a Marylander raised in the lap of luxury who spent his life in service to his nation.

When I learned of the recent school shooting in my state of Maryland, I finally had the hard #MeToo conversation I had been avoiding with my 14-year-old daughter. Why? Because the shooting was not only about school violence; it was also about sexual control and aggression by a 17-year-old boy who